Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1887-01-14
Written and compiled for Tho HEnAI


mittee in the Fiftieth Congress and
the result will indicate whether it
IS the disposition of the party
to adopt a bold and aggres-
sive tariff policy or one more con-
cilatory. AS to the Republicans
and tariff reform, for the remainder
of this session, their members OF
the Ways and Means Committee
have decided to adopt as a platform
a revenue bill which iavors a re-
ductlon of internal revenue and
an adjustment of tariff.
Attorney General Garland, who
had not been in the Senate Cham
Der since the Pan Electric Investi-
CATION, attended the Logan funeral
in company with the other mem
beers of the Cabinet. 1t is claimed
that Mr.. Garland is not harassed
by the criticisms upon him which
appear in print, for the reason that
he knows nothing about them. He
does not read the newspapers, and
is consequently ignorant of what is
said and thought in the world.
Public Printer Benedict, who has
made himself notorious by the
wholesale discharge Of Government
clerks, will soon be tried in the
furnace to see if he himself is not
wanting. Representative Farqu-
har, on the part of the printers
union of New York, is conducting
the fight against his confirmation
in the Senate. Opposition to him
is based upon the grounds that he
is not a practical printer, which the
law stipulates a Public Printer
shall be. Mr.. Farquhar argued
that unless Mr.. Benedict could
earn the average wages in com
posing room he could not be con
sidered a practical printer. This
he said, would be rating practical
printer very low.
A few days ago Senator Mitchell,
of Pennsylvania, asked the Senate
to pass a bill giving a pension OF
$4,000 a year to the widow of Sen
ator Logan. The bill tailed then
through the interference of Sena-
atOr Coke, of Texas, but yesterday
it was brought to a vote and passed.
The sum fixed is the same amount
as that given to the widows OF
General Hancock and General
Thomas.
1t is probable that a new Inaug-
uration will be determined upon
by Congress. Last June the Sen
as voted to extend the Presidents
term of office to the last Tuesday
in April, and also to substitute the
last Tuesday in April for the fourth
of March as the commencement and
termination of the official terms of
Vice Presidents, Senators and Rep
resentatives. Some of the reasons
given for this change were that the
first President was inaugurated on
the Both of April, that it would be
a fitting celebration OF George
Washington's Inauguration to in
augurate the President in 1889
upon the same day, and that the
fourth of March as the day for IN
stalling a new government unduly
curtails the second session of every
Congress.
In the House of Representatives
this resolution passed by the Sen
are, came in contact with the So
called Grain resolution. This pro-
posed that the Constitution be so
amended that the term Of the Fit
tieth Congress shall end on Dec.
81 at noon; that the Fiity-firSt
Congress shall meet Immediately
thereafter, and that the meeting
day of each succeeding Congress
shall be the second Tuesday in
January. Mr.. Grains plan would
bring the Fifty.frst Congress to.
gether about two months after the
members had been selected, instead
of thirteen months, as is now the
case. 1t shOrtens the term of the
next Congress two months, but II
affords all future Congresses an
opportunity for sessions of twelve
months if desirable. The Senate
proposition adds one months to the
second session Of each session. The
House judiciary Committee is now
considering both of these plans and
it is thought they will report a res
oluuOl containing the best points
IN both.
General Sherman was nOn.cOm-
initial when asked about an alleged
correspondence between himself
and Mr.. Blaine in which the latter
offered to personally support Gen.
Sherman for the Presidential nOmi-
nation in 1884. '1fany such letters
exist suggested the old soldier,
cit will be time to publish them
after Mr.. Blame and I have passed
away just before the General
was retired, he was heard to say
one day at the War Department,
that he had no political ambition.
81 have had enough to satisfy a
soldiers AMBITION added he, "why
should | endanger the record have
made by an attempt y get the
Presidency ?"